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Common Read

The Common Read Selection Committee is pleased to announce the 2018 – 2019 selection,
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson.

Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a
legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor,
the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our
criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young
man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn't commit.
The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal
brinksmanship - and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.

Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer's coming
of age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring
argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice.

Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction | Winner of the NAACP Image Award for
Nonfiction | Winner of a Books for a Better Life Award | Finalist for the Los Angeles
Book Prize | Finalist for the Kirkus Review Prize | An American Library Association Notable Book

New episodes of The Commons, the Common Read podcast, will be back to talk about Just Mercy. Check out our two Episodes from our 17-18 selection Homegoing.

Episode 1 features USA History Professor Marsha Hamilton on the Atlantic world.